The Law Society of Kenya has filed a petition seeking to have Deputy President Kithure Kindiki and Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen, who are both advocates, struck off the advocates' roll.
In its petition, the LSK argued that the two had violated the Constitution of Kenya as well as the oaths of office they swore to uphold and protect human rights and constitutional principles.
The lobby also accused both leaders of overseeing excessive brutality against citizens in the course of their duties as public officers, referencing police excesses that have characterised their respective tenures as Interior Cabinet Secretaries.
Additionally, the society maintained that extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances warranted the filing of the petition to remove the two from the list of practising advocates.
